The Heavens: Cross the World

Chapter 99
"As soon as I received Jinsun's telegram, I immediately started looking for someone."

Lu Haodong sighed and told what happened.

Duan's family lived on Dongqian Street, and the Japanese designated that area as a concession and drove out all the Chinese in it.

The Duan family's several shops and houses were all inside, not to mention that they were directly kicked out of the East Street, and all the family property was forcibly confiscated by the Japanese, and the shops were gone.

With dozens of members in the Duan family, they suddenly had no way to survive, so naturally they refused.

Master Duan went to the yamen to file a complaint and asked the yamen to call the shots.

Unexpectedly, the government didn't dare to provoke the Japanese at all, so they directly beat Master Duan thirty times with a cane and drove him out of the Yamen.

Master Duan was furious, and because he was too old, the place where he was hit by the rod was seriously injured, so he died just like that.

This old man is the backbone of the Duan family. Once he dies, the entire Duan family will fall and disperse, running and fleeing.

Sister Feng Ji's house was reduced to the street, and finally lived in a shantytown.

Originally, this was fine. With Lu Haodong's ability, it would not be a big problem to settle their family here.

But when Lu Haodong found the address, Feng Jinfeng and his family disappeared.

Lu Haodong asked people to help find him everywhere, but there was no news.

"Hey, brother Dao Ke, I have also searched everywhere, but the shanty town has a complex population and many gangs. Your eldest sister and the others have just moved there, and they don't know many people. I asked many people, but none information."

Feng Ji's face was a little gloomy, but it was not towards Lu Haodong, but towards the Japanese.

Lu Haodong has tried his best to help, so of course he can't blame him.

When he arrived in Guangzhou and saw the White Lotus Sect running rampant and foreign ships everywhere, he had a bad feeling.

Feng Ji sighed, and said, "I don't blame Brother Haodong, you have tried your best, can you tell me the address of the shanty town?"

"it is good."

Feng Ji got the address and asked again: "Brother Haodong, is there a gang in this shanty town?"

"Yes, that piece of land belongs to the Thirteenth Bank. I have also asked someone to ask friends in the Thirteenth Bank, but there are also many hills inside the Thirteenth Bank, and he couldn't find out for me."

The so-called Thirteen Banks were actually dental firms specialized in foreign trade in the Qing Dynasty.

However, since the Opium War in the late Qing Dynasty, the British forcibly tore apart the Qing Dynasty’s closed-door policy and forced the Qing government to sign the Nanjing Treaty and open a large number of port transactions. gradually declined.

Today's Thirteen Banks, although still engaged in foreign trade, are no longer completely under the jurisdiction of the government. The real control of the Thirteen Banks is the gang organization formed by some local family forces.

Feng Ji learned a little bit from Lu Haodong that the real controllers of these thirteen lines are the four big merchants Pan, Wu, Lu, and Ye, and they are also the four richest families in Guangdong.

The family accumulation of nearly a hundred years has made the four big families already wealthy, and their business involves all aspects. Even in the government, there are many members of the four big families.

After Feng Ji finished listening, he just nodded slightly, not caring how powerful the so-called four major families were.

For him, as long as there are local snakes, everything will be easy to handle.

Rejecting Lu Haodong's invitation to pick up the wind and wash the dust, Feng Ji simply washed up and fell asleep.

As soon as the next day dawned, Little Six had already waited outside the Lu Family Manor.

After punching and eating, Feng Ji said hello to Uncle You, then took Xiaoliuzi and went to the shanty town.

This time there was no luggage, and Feng Ji sat in Xiaoliuzi's rickshaw.

"Master Feng, the shanty town is dirty and messy, what are you doing there?"

"A relative has disappeared there, go and check."

Hearing the words, the little six sons suddenly showed a look of hesitation.

Feng Ji saw that he had something to say, and asked, "You have something to say."

"Master Feng, it's not that a villain wants to say bad things, but I've heard people say that people go missing in the shantytowns, and that's a common occurrence. I've heard people say that many dental workers go there to arrest people. "

Feng Ji immediately raised his brows: "Is it good for teeth?"

"It's Ren Yazi. They often collude with some gangsters in the shantytowns to forcibly abduct women and children. Some are sent to brothels, and some are sold to the mountains."

"What's more, I heard that it will be sold directly to foreigners."

Feng Ji's face darkened slightly, people were bought and sold in any era.

The more troubled times are, the more such things will happen.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and only hoped that the eldest sister and her family would not suffer from such a thing.

The rickshaw quickly passed through the crowd and entered a shanty town.

This place is indeed as Xiaoliuzi said, dirty and messy, pedestrians are disheveled, poorly clothed, yellow and emaciated.

Many opium halls line the streets, and gambling houses can be seen everywhere.

As soon as Little Six brought Feng Ji in, many beggars immediately surrounded him, begging for money.

Little Six was not polite, he raised his hand and was about to hit him.

"Go away, go away!"

"Damn, get out of here, you have hands and feet, don't you fucking make money by yourself?"

"Go away!"

The beggars were beaten repeatedly by the little six sons, and ran away with their heads in their arms.

At this time Feng Ji said: "Wait a minute."

Little Six was taken aback, then turned to look at Feng Ji: "Master Feng?"

Feng Ji got up and got out of the rickshaw, came to many beggars, stretched out his palm, revealing a handful of copper coins.

He glanced around the beggars, took out a portrait of his eldest sister Feng Jinfeng, and said, "Whoever has seen this woman, and whoever can provide any valuable information, the money will belong to him."

The beggars' eyes lit up and they hurriedly looked at the portrait.

A beggar suddenly shouted: "I know, I know. This woman lives in the shanty behind Anren's shop. I saw her a month ago."

Feng Ji looked at the beggar and asked, "Does she still live there?"

"Um, I don't know about that."

Feng Ji didn't talk nonsense, and threw out the copper coins directly.

Suddenly the beggar was ecstatic, and hurriedly picked up the copper coins and stuffed them into the bowl.

According to Feng Ji's information from Lu Haodong, the eldest sister indeed lives in a shanty near Anrenpu.

The other beggars looked helplessly, and someone shouted: "I also know that this woman lives in Anrenpu."

Feng Ji shook his head: "It's useless to repeat the news, does anyone have any news about this woman?"

The beggars looked at each other, obviously no one knew.

Feng Ji frowned, and said, "You can inquire. If you have any news, you can find me at the Lu Family Manor."

After finishing speaking, Feng Ji took the little six sons and walked towards Anrenpu.

Anren is paved in a shantytown, and it is a somewhat decent street, but the road is still full of mud.

On both sides of the road, there are all simple houses built by dilapidated shacks.

Feng Ji quickly found the location described by Lu Haodong. This shanty was a thatched-roofed house built of simple wood inside.

Between the wood and the wood, there are still many palm-thick gaps, and the sight is barely covered by wooden boards.

Feng Ji glanced around, and saw a middle-aged man lying on a moldy chair at the door, an oil lamp was lit on a tattered table on one side, and he was holding a big cigarette stick in his hand, puffing on clouds.

Obviously, the owner has changed here.

Little Six took a look at Feng Ji and said, "Master, may I ask about the situation?"

"Ah."

Little Six immediately ran over, mentioned the middle-aged man who was smoking opium, and asked, "Hey, wake up! Stop smoking!"

"Who are you?"

The middle-aged man opened his eyes and yelled in a daze.

Little Six pulled him up, with contempt in his eyes, he looked down on these cowards who smoked opium.

"Let me ask you, where did the original people live here?"

The middle-aged man pushed Xiao Liuzi hard, but unfortunately his weak body couldn't push Xiao Liuzi away at all.

The man said angrily: "Let go! Fuck you, do you know who I'm messing with? Does Lord Kun recognize you? That's my employer!"

Hearing this, Little Six hesitated.

"Meng Kun who gambled from all directions?"

Seeing this, the middle-aged man couldn't help but feel complacent: "It's good to know, let me go!"

Little Six became embarrassed, and looked back at Feng Ji.

Feng Ji had already walked over, patted Xiaoliuzi, and signaled him to get out of the way.

Little Liu quickly moved away, Feng Ji walked up to this person, and slowly reached out to grab the person's braid.

The middle-aged man suddenly became angry from embarrassment, and cursed: "Are you fucking courting death?"

He wanted to get up, but Feng Ji stepped lightly on his chest.

"Ouch...you fucking—ah!"

He hadn't finished cursing when suddenly his scalp hurt sharply. Feng Ji directly grabbed his braid, causing his scalp to bleed.

"Answer my question well, I won't ask it a second time."

"Hey, hey, let go, let go quickly, let go first, you should ask."

"Where are the people who lived here?"

"I don't know. When I came here, it was empty."

Feng Ji asked coldly: "When you came, were the original owner's belongings still there?"

"Yes, all of them."

"Have you heard where the original owner went?"

"I don't know, I really don't know. There are few people in this shantytown every three days. I only heard that there were three members of the family who lived here before. The girl is very beautiful, and the man seems to be the young master of a rich family."

"go on."

"This kind of person is Ren Yazi's favorite. If you want to find someone, go ask Ren Yazi."

Feng Ji frowned: "Where are the people in this area?"

"Tong Fu Xing, you can find out when you go to Tong Fu Xing."

Feng Ji picked up the other party and shouted: "Find out all the belongings of the original owner."

The thin body of the middle-aged man was picked up like a chick and thrown into the house.

The room was full of strange smells, the man rummaged hurriedly and dragged out a tattered basket from the corner.

Feng Ji glanced around, but saw that most of the baskets were old clothes.

But from the clothes, he has already judged that these are indeed belongings of the elder sister's family.

Feng Ji's face darkened.

"Eldest sister disappeared without even packing her clothes. She definitely didn't leave by herself."

Feng Ji immediately turned around and said to Little Six, "Take me to Tongfu!"

"Yes, sir."

Little Six quickly got into the rickshaw and took Feng Ji to Tongfu.

"Liu Zi, how much do you know about Tong Fu Xing?"

"Young master, Tongfuhang is one of the thirteen branches in Guangdong, and the one here should be just a semicolon."

"Behind Tongfuxing is the property of the Pan family of the four major families. It mainly deals in human population. I heard that they are quite close to foreigners, and there are many contacts in the government. In the entire four major families, there are Above average."

"I also heard that Tongfuhang raised a group of people and established the Tongfu Gang. It sounds nice to talk about sharing blessings, but the people inside are all vicious, and many of them were rescued from death row prisoners. "

"It is said that Wu Shun, the leader of the Tongfu Gang, used to be a member of the White Lotus Sect, and no one would dare to mess with him."

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